Sentences with phrase «grandiose plans»

In the process, some of Apple's more grandiose plans for iOS 12 — such as a revamped homescreen — will reportedly be put on the shelf until iOS 13 in 2019.

If it came to, say, $ 100, I wouldn't make grandiose plans about buying a new Mercedes.

In 1517, an unknown German professor from an undistinguished new university protested against the sordid trade in religious benefits known as «indulgences,» which were then being peddled around Germany to fund grandiose plans to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

The world's biggest automakers, some of whom have been slow to react to the changing landscape, have been breaking their axles lately jumping on the all - electric bandwagon, with a flurry of recent announcements outlining grandiose plans to charge up their lineups.

He enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago in the early»70s, harboring grandiose plans to illustrate Dante's Divine Comedy in a series of 100 paintings and drawings for each of the 100 cantos that would take him a quarter century to complete.

The Indian government had grandiose plans for a fleet of «Ultra Mega» power plants UMPP, a couple of which actually got built.

Second, here's a big - bank CEO asking for the government to introduce yet another grandiose plan, complete with new regulations and requirements.

Likewise, in the workplace, if you tell your team about your grandiose plans for the organization twice a week, they will tune you out.

Heyman, whose Jewish family left Germany for England before Adolf Hitler took power, had a grandiose plan of his own: to put all the Hebrew and Christian scriptures on film.

It will not be achieved simply by implementing a grandiose plan designed by a body such as the United Nations; even less can it be imposed by the dictates of one or more strong leaders.

I had this grandiose plan of making some sourdough crumpets.

Top banana now at the Football Association, issuer of grandiose plans to summon others of the great and good to deliberate — however pessimistically — on the future of football.

This time, Horanburg said, «It's not a grandiose plan.

Because with all these grandiose plans, something's got to give.

I have all of these grandiose plans for it, yet it still sits full of unpacked boxes and Christmas decorations I can't bring myself to finish packing away.

I had all these grandiose plans of running 5 miles a day and developing some recipes for my food blog... neither of which has come to fruition.

Hard to believe but it's only been seven years since Marvel set in motion this grandiose plan to create a cinematic universe that would bring many of it's popular comic book character to life.

The studio seems to have taken in feedback, though — Marvel has a villain problem — and Kaecilius is given additional layers that Ronan lacked, nuances to his evil scheming that result in an antagonist more interesting than grandiose plans to destroy the universe.

Two years ago we were stunned by the grandiose plans for a range of Lotus supercars revealed by new CEO Dany Bahar at the Paris -LSB-...]

And that's especially true in China, which once had grandiose plans to dominate EV technology.

Perhaps their pension is going to provide for most of their needs and they don't have any grandiose plans.

What are your grandiose plans for the weekend?

Performance artist Marina Abramovic has backed out of her grandiose plans for her upstate arts institute and questions loom over what happened to the $ 2.2 million she raised over four years for the project, including donations from the likes of Jay - Z and nearly 5,000 donors in a Kickstarter campaign.

So he's earned his success, not with some big, grandiose plan («It's the Uber of Chipotle»), but just one piece of sushi, one bite - size piece at a time.

Twenty - seven boxes of tapes, posters, letters, embarrassing notes, to - do lists, and grandiose plans will be made available to researchers and preserved for all time in a feminist and queer context, alongside the archives of artists such as Yvonne Rainer, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Carolee Schneemann.

Thus, the businesses that created the «memos» had no grandiose plan or the power to impose one.

Contingency planning doesn't mean having grandiose plans.

«It's a grandiose plan,» says Futterman's Rosenberg.

I have all of these grandiose plans for it, yet it still sits full of unpacked boxes and Christmas decorations I can't bring myself to finish packing away.